Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic

Ingredients

40 garlic cloves
½ teaspoon salt
1 4-lb chicken
baguette slices
kitchen string
1 fresh thyme sprig
1 fresh sage sprig
+ 6 more ingredients
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup olive oil
- 2 fresh parsley sprigs
- 1 fresh rosemary sprig
- 1 bay leaf (not California)
- 1 celery rib

Preheat oven to 350°F. Rinse chicken and pat dry. Sprinkle inside and out with salt and pepper. Tie legs together with kitchen string and fold wings under chicken. Heat oil in a 6- to 8-quart wide heavy ovenproof pot over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then brown chicken, turning...

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